Norwegian outfits GC Rieber Shipping and Rasmussengruppen have joined forces to set up a new 50/50 owned marine geophysical company, to be called Shearwater GeoServices. Shearwater will be an integrated provider of marine geophysical…
Norwegian geoscience firm Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) says it is to reduce its 'employee expenses' by about 20%, through temporary and permanent layoffs on shore and offshore and other measures, due to a reduced level of activity. Q2 'employee expenses' were US$5…
Teledyne Webb Research (TWR), a manufacturer of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) including the Slocum G2 glider and Slocum hybrid glider, has released their new glider piloting software, the Slocum Fleet Mission Control Software (SFMC)…
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Statoil consent to drill four survey wells in order to obtain information about the reservoir conditions in the field. Drilling, in 110-120m, using the Deepsea Atlantic semisubmersible drilling rig…
Sea Trucks was awarded a contract by an international oil major to West African Ventures, Sea Trucks’ principle Nigerian business, for the provision of an accommodation vessel to a deepwater field, offshore Nigeria. The scope of work covers accommodation support services for 250 passengers…
The Transocean Winner has been loaded onto the Hawk semisubmersible heavy lift ship, and is preparing for its journey to Turkey, according to the UK’s Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA). The Transocean Winner…
With the downturn taking many drillships off the market, ABS’ Dave Forsyth and Landon Fields discuss how to bring those ships back up to speed when the market recovers. Safe and rapid reactivation…
Atlantic Offshore, together with Statoil, have decided to convert the Ocean Response tug/supply vessel to act as full oil recovery and oil spill vessel within the NOFO 2009 regulations. The vessel will then have more flexibility to serve as an emergency and response vessel…
Dutch heavy weight Allseas marked its biggest milestone yet, late August - and has now released a video showing the operation. The firm's mega-vessel, the US$2.7 billion Pioneering Spirit, successfully completed its first commercial job…
PSV Frigg Viking in Aberdeen Harbour. Image courtesy of Jim Cargill Nexen has applied software developed by PlanSea Ltd., a Robert Gordon University spin-out company, to remove significant cost from its North Sea operations…
Petrobras has relaunched the bid process for its Libra Pilot floating production and storage offloading vessel (FPSO), following the cancelation of the previous bid process due to “an abnormally high price.” Image of Libra field operations…
North Atlantic Drilling (NADL) entered an amendment agreement with Jurong Shipyard that will extend the delivery deferral period of the West Rigel semisubmersible to 6 January 2017. The extension allows the parties to continue to explore commercial opportunities for the unit…
World Marine Offshore has been contracted by Iberdrola Renovables Offshore Deutschland to provide two newbuild crew transfer vessels (CTVs) during the operations and maintenance (O&M) period for the Wikinger wind farm in Germany. “Building…
Seadrill Partners received a notice of force majeure from Tullow Ghana for the West Leo drilling contract effective 3 October 2016 that the company is disputing. Seadrill said it will move to enforce all its rights as per the contract and governing law…
The Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group yard in China has delivered two new Wärtsilä designed anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels to China Oilfield Services Ltd. (COSL). The delivery of these two ships follows the success of the…
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